Joseph Gibbons, a filmmaker and former M.I.T. professor, is facing felony robbery charges in two states after after allegedly filmed himself stealing $1,000 from a Manhattan bank on New Year's Eve and $3,000 from a bank in Rhode Island in November, the New York Post reports. Gibbons.

Thomas Keller's French Laundry restaurant suffered a Christmas day wine robbery—certainly, the worst kind of robbery either a three-star Michelin rated restaurant or any old wine fan could suffer.

According to reports, a fifteen-year-old Chicago boy died saving his twin brother from armed assailants this weekend.

An 88-year-0ld man—bless his heart—was robbed on Halloween night after openly counting out his casino winnings and then being followed by a crook who was greedy for the cash. Did the robber sneak up behind the man as he was leaving the casino? Why, no. He followed the guy for ten miles.

A cop in Jersey City, N.J. was shot while still in his police vehicle early Sunday morning as he responded to a robbery call at a local Walgreens. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop released a statement this morning that confirmed the death of officer Melvin Santiago.

An elderly couple in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland have confessed to stealing money from church collection boxes for months, saying that the adrenaline rush it gave them helped cure their boredom.

On February 19, one of the largest bank heists in history was pulled off and almost no one noticed. No getaway vehicles were left idling, no guns were pointed, no panic buttons were pressed—but somehow several crews in two dozen countries working in perfect precision walked away with $40 million in cash.

At 7:50 p.m. on Monday night, a Brink's armored truck on the Tarmac at Brussels Airport was loading a shipment of uncut diamonds onto a 8:10 Zurich-bound Helvetic Airlines flight. At 7:54 p.m., the diamonds were gone. What happened in between was "one of the biggest" diamond heists ever: a gang of eight thieves,…

After robbing a Santa Clarita Valley bank earlier today, four men sped off in a black Volvo towards downtown Los Angeles trailed closely by LAPD. En route, two of the robbers bailed out of the vehicle while the other two exited the highway and took to the streets of a Los Angeles neighborhood tossing "unknown…

Used to be folks wouldn't dream of going to the theater without long white gloves, traveling on an aeroplane in short pants, or robbing a bank in anything but their finest haute couture ball gown.

Working at a 7-11 during a robbery is a pretty frightening and humiliating experience. Even more humiliating is when the robbers lock you in a freezer afterward.

How badly did Gumby screw up his attempted robbery of a San Diego 7-11? Well, really badly: Not only did he not, in fact, steal anything, he actually gave money to the clerk.

If you see a woman with a beard drawn on her face, arrest her! Immediately! She may have just robbed two banks in Alabama. And ignore her bomb threat, too.

Your mom might be part of a Detroit pickpocketing ring, but that's small potatoes compared to what your grandma could be up to. A mother and child were held up at gunpoint outside a Target store in San Bernardino by a woman "who might be 80," wearing a "neutral-colored faded muumuu with a multi-colored scarf covering…

This closed-circuit video shows footage of a jeweler handily taking down two armed robbers, hurling one over the glass counter and chasing them both out the door.

Well, this is quite depressing. Watch as an older gentleman at a Shell gas station in Seattle robs another older gentleman at gunpoint, albeit extremely politely/apologetically. Is this the most polite armed robbery ever? The saddest? You be the judge.

And the award for Badass of the Day goes to... this red-coated English granny, who scared off a group of would-be jewelry store robbers in the English town of Northampton by hitting them with her giant purse. Get it, girl.